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Management Team

Alison Denham

Alison Denham
Head of Professional and Business Development

Alison has more than 18 years' Public Relations experience. Her current role at Ruder Finn is to ensure the delivery of high quality client services and equip account handlers with the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfill their potential and meet client expectations.

Claire Martin

Claire Martin
Head of Healthcare

Claire has enjoyed driving strategic global, European and UK healthcare programmes for the pharmaceutical industry, professional groups and government bodies for over eleven years. She has a passion for driving creative, results-orientated healthcare communications programmes that improve patient outcomes. Claire has collaborated with advocacy groups on educational campaigns and with pharma companies on high profile and niche products, at all stages of the product life cycle, to change perceptions, beliefs and behaviours and influence political health agendas.

Hugh McKinney

Hugh McKinney
Head of Public Affairs

Hugh specialises in political issues management and has worked on a wide variety of high profile national and international campaigns for commercial and other clients. He works closely with MPs of all parties, Select Committee members, All Party Groups and Peers. He establishes effective communications between clients and Parliamentarians. He himself worked for many years in the UK Parliament.

Becky McMichael

Becky McMichael
Director, Global Connectivity Practice

Becky's experience spans organisations with a focus on corporate and brand communications, technology, innovation and philanthropy. Her key strengths are in strategic campaign development, client counsel, results delivery and team management. She has run corporate, business and broadcast campaigns for a range of clients in the enterprise technology and corporate fields.

Penny Lennon

Penny Lennon
Managing Director of Healthcare

As Managing Director of Healthcare in London, Penny is responsible for the strategic direction of the Health and Wellbeing division, building business and ensuring quality of delivery to clients. Penny's professional experience, coupled with her BSc in Pharmacology, provides a solid understanding of communications in the healthcare arena.

Disease Awareness

Communicating complex disease awareness

Communicating complex disease awareness

Ruder Finn helped develop and implement a communications strategy raising awareness and commitment from leading European and US donors...

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Media Launch

"No More Needles" - the media launch of Exjade

"No More Needles" - the media launch of Exjade

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Launch

RF UK Launches Innovation Studios

RF UK Launches Innovation Studios

We deliver results through understanding the changing behaviour of audiences and the strategies required to reach them.

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